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I booked the wrong room on my first cruise. It was my biggest regret of the 7-day voyage.
My first night on a cruise ship was terrifying. The floor trembled beneath me. I was startled by booming noises coming from the decks above and below mine. Was that furniture falling, sliding, and crashing into walls? My imagination was riddled with anxiety. I sat stiffly on the couch at midnight…
Flock CEO says drones are its fastest-growing business as it expands beyond license plate cameras
Flock Safety is best known for its license plate-scanning technology. But during an interview on the “All-In” podcast released Monday, CEO Garrett Langley said that business now represents just under half of the company’s “forward-looking revenue.” The company is increasingly betting on drones that…
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a new robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of the self-driving industry, is working on a new robotics startup called Dulo. He revealed the new venture at the end of a keynote speech at Actuate, a robotics conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. “I am not speaking about the company yet,” Thrun said. “It’s…
McDonald’s is losing ground to rivals like Burger King with a key customer group
McDonald’s is losing ground to rivals among low-income fast-food diners, according to recent data. Spending by low-income guests at the Golden Arches declined 2.4% year-over-year during the company’s latest quarter, said consumer analytics company Numerator. The firm defines “low-income guests” as…
We asked ChatGPT’s new teen function to help us cheat on our homework. Here’s how it went.
When I heard that ChatGPT was rolling out a range of new safety features for under-18 use of the chatbot, I knew what I had to do. I set up a new account, shaved off half my age, and asked my colleague Will, only four years my senior, to be my ChatGPT dad. With our
American Airlines is reversing its bet against seatback screens
For years, American Airlines bet that travelers would rather watch in-flight movies on their own phones or tablets. No more. On Tuesday, the airline said it plans to install seatback entertainment screens on around 800 single-aisle jets. New Airbus and Boeing jets with the screens will begin…
Google’s bid for Spirit’s data is a reminder that your work emails aren’t really yours
Long after the goodbye cake is gone, you could still be valuable to your employer. The digital trail that employees create at work has become a hot commodity for companies looking to build and train AI models — sometimes, as with Spirit Airlines, outlasting the businesses that accumulated it…
Harvey’s first LLM for legal work is here
Harvey built an $11 billion legal-software business on top of other companies’ AI models. Now it’s trying to prove it can build one of its own. On Tuesday, Harvey introduced Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work. Tenet is designed to help Harvey’s software take on more…
Live Q&A: Hollywood brought the heat this summer. Can it last?
It’s been a hot summer in Hollywood. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” had a record-breaking opening weekend, bringing in $360 million. Fans were shelling out as much as $600 and traveling thousands of miles to catch “The Odyssey” on premium Imax screens. And, if you think back to early June, the horror…
Companies want employees to help build AI tools they expect them to use. That comes with 2 big challenges.
AI is meant to help workers do their jobs. Some Walmart employees say they’re the ones providing assistance in the relationship. Walmart’s massive bet on AI includes equipping in-store workers with a suite of tools to make them more efficient. But in some cases, workers are finding themselves…